This will be long...

Alright so first things first, Thanksgiving was last Thursday. That was interesting but fun. I cooked my first turkey well and my first Thanksgiving meal, so that was a lot of fun. Megan came over and helped me cook and ate with us. We had dinner with my rotary youth councelor guy and his wife and then my host family and me and Megan. They liked all of the food a lot except for the pumpkin pie that was odd because it was soooo good. We had to teach them how to eat sweet potatoes too which was also kind of weird considering the amount of potatoes these people eat. So that went pretty good. Here are some pics from my Thanksgiving...

Pretty much things are going A LOT better. I can like somewhat speak German, enough to communicate so people understand me it's not always correct or anything but at least people can talk to me and understand what I say back lol. I'm getting more friends, like friends who call me to hang out lol so that's cool. I'm really starting to like things here.

Last weekend was Erika's birthday, same day as dads (Saturday 24. Nov.) so we all stayed at Megans in Ulm again. I love her host family they are so nice. They have all boys so I think Suzi (the host mom) likes having us girls around. They call us daughters 1, 2, and 3...I'm tochter 2...lol we're going there again next weekend for a rotary thing in Ulm and all of the students are staying with familys so of course me and Erika are staying with Megans. I'm so excited for it!

Oh and if you have any ideas about why American christmas is different than other ones, please let me know lol because in my English class we are having a christmas party and my teacher wants me to come up with some things about American chirstmas that we can do..

Ok well I was going to write something else but I totally forgot so when I remember I'll write it down ok

Liebe grüß!

Courtney

So..

It's been a while, sorry. I'm not gonna lie and say I never have time to update this, because well honestly...I do. Lots of it. I've just been kind of lazy lately. I even have things to write about.. I guess I'll start from where I left off, Ferien.

We went to Zwiesel, a little town in Baveria near the border of the Czech Republic. Pretty much we hiked and went up a couple mountains, some museums, and spent a day in the Czech. For the most part it was pretty good. Very different than the sit by the pool vacations I'm usually on lol. Speaking of sitting, I don't really remember how it came about, but just so everyone in my family knows, we're the "sitter" family. In the black forest some how we started talking about stuff like that and I noticed how we sit a lot lol. Outside, in Rome, living room, air ports. That probably really sounds normal lol, but I don' t know lol. It doesn't really matter, so moving on.

The day after we got back from the trip, we went on a 24km hike...that's 15 miles. I was kind of in a bad mood. I really just wanted a day to relax, but I had to go. It was ok, glad I went just because...but still I would've appreciated a day of rest lol. Oh, and I bought a Dirndel lol It's pink. I like it a lot.

So this week has been kind of crappy. A lot on my mind..So lately, I've been watching a lot of Grey's Anatomy lol I love it. I never watched it at home, but I'm watching it here and it's good, really good. I'm also reading a book. I know, very odd for me, but it's very good. This weekend I actually have a life, just for the weekend though. Tomorrow I'm going to Sophia's house and then we're going to a party. On Saturday I'm going to Ulm to see Megan and spend the night there, and Erika's coming too! I'm so excited to hang out with those two again, I love them to death. It's gonna suck when we go back to the states and it's not as easy to hang out...At least Megan's only in Chicago, but Erika's all the way in California! Oh well, we'll figure it out. For real though, we're going to have a blast. We're spending the night at Megans and coming home Sunday...then school again. Schade. (bummer)

Well, just ask if you have any questions, I don't really know what to talk about lol, and I've gotta head out to basketball soon so, Hopefully I'll talk to everyone soon.

Love and miss you all.

Love,
Courtney